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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Sudden emergency (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Rubanski@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am a Linux beginner but I really enjoyed it so far. So far. Since yesterday, my Linux (pop OS) only wants to boot into emergency mode. I have a suspicion, even though my Linux and Windows are located on different physical disks, somehow Windows does it's toxic ex lover things and somehow broke my Linux I assume. It's there a terminal command to somehow reorganise my boot files?

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Windows can't read your linux partitions, it doesn't support them, so it's almost impossible for it to damage your installation. It used to be that it could mess with the bootloader, but since UEFI got implemented, that' become less likely.
What does it do when you boot into normal mode? Does it get to the login screen or not? Do you see error messages?

If you get to login but no further, it could be a problem with your user, like a bad shell setting, since rescue mode logs you in as root usually (I'm not very familiar with debian/ubuntu based distros), otherwise it could be you installed/updated/removed the wrong package(s), unfortunately as far as I'm aware apt doesn't have history rollback capabilities, so undoing that is going to be difficult.

This is an unpopular opinion, but when you're still inexperienced with linux, the quickest way to fix your system is just reinstalling. Back up your whole home dir beforehand and you'll just have to drop it back in place to get all your data and settings back. If you have more than one user you may want to be careful with the UID, you may have to chown -R the whole directory.